Cities all over the world are challenged by increasing the quality of life of urban citizens in order to ensure sustainable urban development. However, a lot of policies and planning fail in integrating environmental aspects in a way that makes them applicable for design leading to rather unsustainable developments. This paper presents an approach to integrate ecological parameters into urban d...

The ecological construction for demonstration area is an idealized model for the establishment of rural sustainable development in the countyscale. This paper presents a GIS-based evaluation system of ecological construction for demonstration area. It includes an index system with the 4 secondary indices and 24 factor indices, and a method of ecological construction for demonstration area utili...

Inspired by Christopher Alexander’s conception of the world – space is not lifeless or neutral, but a living structure involving far more small things than large ones, a topological representation has been previously developed to characterize the living structure or the wholeness of geographic space. This paper further develops the topological representation and living structure for predicting ...

Objective: Through the spatial optimal allocation of land resources to improve efficiency use, promote rational layout various industries and infrastructure, provide a theoretical basis for comprehensive development regional social economy. Methods: Combining GIS analysis technology, logistic regression method CLUE-S model, taking Kaishan Fengweihan City, Laos, as research area, on was carried ...